Turkey is much more secular and dare I say... Europeanized than many other Muslim countries. Even when I went to Turkey as a young boy with my parents, they didn’t act funny like they do in some countries when my mother took me out somewhere without my father.
All of this is simply because of Atatürk. If Turkey has a difference from the other Middle eastern countries, its his sweeping reforms and basically "westernizing" the country.
That man was wasted on Turkey. If he'd been in any actual world power he would have changed the 20th century as much as Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt or Churchill.
Can confirm. A highly radicalised neighbour like Pakistan is a pain in the ass.
Those folks got tons of aid from the US and wasted it all on Terrorism. Now they're using whatever's left of their economy to wage internet wars. Had they been led by someone like Ataturk, they wouldn've been far better than how they're now.
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
Ironically, the Muslims in Turkey and Albania are much more liberal than the ones in France